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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.
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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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